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No Selfies Allowed: Social Media Bans at Landmarks

In the age of social media ubiquity, some popular destinations are instituting selfie (or, more specifically, selfie stick) bans.

This piece was originally published in March 2015 and has been updated.

South Korea

South Korea hasn’t passed any laws related to selfies, but they recently passed one about “selfie sticks,” a popular device that can hold up your phone and snap the photo for you. These devices make it easy to snap better selfies from different angles, but they’re connected to your phone via Bluetooth, which means that the sticks could be used to access your personal data. South Korea is cracking down on unregistered knock-off selfie sticks and will now regulate them via a government agency that monitors telecom devices.